Friday, April 19, 2013

Improve Your Reading Improve Your Career, Business and Personal Life

In this short post, I wish to tie
the importance of reading to your job. 21st century is a highly
phased competitive century according to historians. There is so much truth in
this sentence. Walls of countries are breaking down, cultures are merging like
never before, giving birth to strange cultures or way of life, some of which are
good and some are out right confusing.

I mekim ol manmeri i go longlong na ron nambout olsem anis long rot.

As organizations come to realize the
challenges of 21st century market place, they tighten their grips on
essential human skills that are necessary for day to day operation of their
business or organizations. They demand you to have those skills. I was a divisional
manager with a big oil palm company in Kimbe few months back and I am telling
you from my experience. I use to hire and fire, and people skill was always a determining
factor in the hire and fire process.

Critical Human Skills for 21st century carrier and business
success

READING IS ONE. WRITING IS ANOTHER. SPEAKING IS YET ANOTHER.

Writing and speaking can’t do
WITHOUT reading. That is why PNG Book Club puts every effort in nurturing
reading culture in PNG. One time back in University of Natural Resource and Environment
where I was attached a research scientist, a colleague of mine who was an academic
there passed few soils report from 4th year degree students for me
to read and mark. I made some very fascinating
discoveries. That some final year degree students can’t even differentiate between
past and presence tense. This is really bad, I thought to myself. Why? Because they
don’t read..Simple as that. You can hide and be lazy about reading but it will all
show when open your mouth to speak or put pen to paper.

Its gets harder and harder when
you try to get a good job with poor reading, writing and speaking skills. Businesses
survive because of people skills. Managers hire you for your skills. Your
skills add value to the company to maintain competitive edge over others. YOU
SEE IT NOW?.

Question: What happens if you don’t have these skills?

Answer: More struggles for you.

Recommendation: Invest in yourself and get these skills, most of which
are free. Read and read and read.

I became an author not because I studied
language at UPNG. No. I became one because I committed my time into studying
books and how they are written. You study accounting to be an accountant,
right!
So if you want to be a good reader, study READING. If you want to be a
good speaker, study SPEAKING and if you want to be a good writer, study
WRITING.

That is all.

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